Sheet separating apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhisa Okuda
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Abstract
A separating apparatus has a sheet feeding unit for feeding sheets, a separating pad for separating the sheets between the separating pad and the sheet feeding unit, a pad holding member for holding the separating pad, a spring for biasing the pad holding member to thereby bring the separating pad into pressure contact with the sheet feeding unit, a support for supporting the pad holding member on a frame pivotably and movably in a sheet feeding direction, and an abutting surface against which the pad holding member abuts when the pad holding member moves to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction.
Claims10
A sheet separating apparatus comprising:
- sheet feeding means for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad for separating the sheets between said separating pad and said sheet feeding means;
- a pad holding member for holding said separating pad;
- biasing means for biasing said pad holding member to thereby bring said separating pad into pressure contact with said sheet feeding means;
- supporting means for supporting said pad holding member on a frame pivotably and movably in a sheet feeding direction;
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- an abutting surface against which said pad holding member abuts when said pad holding member moves to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction.
An original reading apparatus comprising:
- sheet feeding means for feeding originals;
- a separating pad for separating the originals between said separating pad and said sheet feeding means;
- a pad holding member for holding said separating pad;
- biasing means for biasing said pad holding member to thereby bring said separating pad into pressure contact with said sheet feeding means;
- supporting means for supporting said pad holding member on a frame pivotably and movably in a sheet feeding direction;
- an abutting surface against which said pad holding member abuts when said pad holding member moves to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction;
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- an image reading portion for reading images of the originals separated and fed out by said separating pad.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- sheet feeding means for feeding sheets;
- a separating pad for separating the sheets between said separating pad and said sheet feeding means;
- a pad holding member for holding said separating pad;
- biasing means for biasing said pad holding member to thereby bring said separating pad into pressure contact with said sheet feeding means;
- supporting means for supporting said pad holding member on a frame pivotably and movably in a sheet feeding direction;
- an abutting surface against which said pad holding member abuts when said pad holding member moves to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction;
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- an image forming portion for forming images on the sheets separated and fed out by said separating pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.